Lesson 89 – الدَّرْسُ التَّاسِعُ والثَّمانون
The conditional sentence - أَسالِيبُ التَّحِيَّةِ، والاِعْتِذارِ
The Style of Apology – أُسْلوب الاِعْتِذَار
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- The Arabic apology style consists of the expressions which someone can use to show that he is sorry about something that he has done or said (being so late, causing troubles etc.)
- In Arabic, there are many structures to express apology. There are verbal affirmative structures as (أَعْتَذِرُ I apologize), a verbal imperative structure as (سامِحْنِي forgive me)verbal noun structures as (عَفْوًا - مَعْذِرَةً), and nominal sentences as (أنا آسِف I am sorry).
- Following are some dialogues that contain situations of apology:
(1)
| Dialogue | ||
| English | Arabic | Speaker |
| Peace be upon you, Ammar! | ||
| And upon you be peace, Yasser! Welcome! | ||
| Sorry, my friend! | ||
| What is the problem, Yasser? | ||
| I cannot come at seven | ||
| No problem, my friend. When will you come? | ||
| I will come at nine | ||
| No problem, I will wait for you at that time | ||
| Sorry again, my friend | ||
| No problem, my friend, good bye! | ||
| Good bye! | ||
(2)
| Dialogue | ||
| English | Arabic | Speaker |
| Good morning, sir! | ||
| Good morning, Ibrahim! | ||
| Sorry sir! | ||
| What is the problem, Ibrahim? | ||
| I am very tired today | ||
| How do you feel? | ||
| I feel a strong pain in my stomach | ||
| Right, I will accept your excuse, but you have to come tomorrow | حَسَنًا، سَأَقْبَلُ اِعْتِذَارَكَ، ولكن يَجِبُ أَنْ تَحْضُرَ غَدًا | |
| God willing, thank you, peace be upon you! | ||
(3)
| Dialogue | ||
| English | Arabic | Speaker |
| I would like to apologize to you | ||
| Apologize for what? | ||
| I apologize that I cannot come to your wedding | ||
| Why? What happened? | ||
| My father has suddenly fallen ill, and I have to be with him | ||
| My Allah cure him | ||
(4)
| Dialogue | ||
| English | Arabic | Speaker |
| Why do you work all this time? | ||
| To apologize to my father for the years of laziness | ||
| Did your father asked you to do that? | ||
| No, but I would like that he forgives me for what was in the past | ||
| This is good, my Allah help you | ||
- You may notice that the apology words (عَفْوًا – مَعْذِرَةً - عُذْرًا) are in the accusative case, because they are considered absolute objects which their verbs are omitted as it is uanderstood from the context as (اُعْفُ عَنِّي عَفْوًا - أَعْتَذِرُ عَنْ هَّذَا الأمْرِ مَعْذِرَةً - اِعْذِرْنِي عَلى هذا الكلامِ عُذْرًا).